{"id":2421,"date":"2020-03-09T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2020-03-09T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:19:24","slug":"sandhill-cranes-across-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/sandhill-cranes-across-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandhill Cranes Across the State!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been checking the Wisconsin Bird Network frequently and seeing reports of Sandhill Cranes (and Trumpeter Swans) across the State since early February&#8230; in fact even in January!  They may even have over-wintered in some few locations to south, as I heard a bit about last year! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/9646\/products\/61526422_10217147437292486_9166523355803680768_n_large.jpg?v=1571439056\" alt=\"Pool 8 of the Mississippi River\"\/><figcaption><strong>Beautiful POOL 8 Map Design by Lisa Middleton!<br><a href=\"https:\/\/great-river-arts.myshopify.com\/products\/pool-8-of-the-mississippi-river?_pos=6&amp;_sid=4b72c3b3d&amp;_ss=r\">Click here to view map DETAILS.<\/a><br><br>&#8220;Your work is beautiful.\u00a0 We ordered Pool 8.\u00a0 It will look perfect above our mantel. As a plus &#8211; our home is near the center of the image. Could not have commissioned a better map!&#8221;   <br>~Mark D., Pool 8<br><\/strong><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What I keep track of here however, is when we first see\/hear Sandhill Cranes in our Pool 8 valley&#8230; and yesterday,<strong> March 8,<\/strong> was the first &#8220;hearing&#8221; of the year for us. It was very distant, however, and we haven&#8217;t &#8220;seen&#8221; them yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All other spring birds are being reported, and where there is still ice on the river, bald eagles are clustering. Nest sites are busy! No word of pelicans yet, but they follow very closely on the breakup of the ice!  Happy Early Spring Birding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been checking the Wisconsin Bird Network frequently and seeing reports of Sandhill Cranes (and Trumpeter Swans) across the State since early February&#8230; in fact even in January! They may even have over-wintered in some few locations to south, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/sandhill-cranes-across-the-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-ramblin","category-upper-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}